Employers of today focus on several types of performance appraisals. The below article discusses how more employers are shifting from the traditional numerical ranking system performance appraisals to a qualitative approach.

Read the article from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) by Dori Meinert, (2015)
https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-magazine/pages/0415-qualitative-performance-reviews.aspx

Your supervisor has tasked you with creating a new performance appraisal system for your department. Your first step is to determine what criteria and competencies are to be evaluated.

Summarize your “new” performance appraisal and explain the criteria and competencies you selected. Justify your rationale for the areas youve selected.

Why will your new performance appraisal better assess and measure employees’ work performance?

What is your intended employee and organizational outcomes for your new type of appraisal? How would a fair and equitable performance appraisal increase motivation in your department? Justify and support your rationale.